Abstract Sam Walton, a leader with an innovative vision, started his own company and made it into the leader in discount retailing that it is today. Through his savvy, and sometimes unusual, business practices, he and his associates led the company forward for thirty years. Today, four years after his ... Read More

The onslaught of death and destruction from war and disease in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries fostered the need for a more personal spiritual guidance. The Roman Catholic Church, facing internal divisions and fiscal abuse, more often than not left its practitioners spiritually destitute and unfulfilled. Its remoteness alone from ... Read More

The Many Marks of Childhood At age 18, the state of California in association with the federal government legally declares an individual to be an adult. He or she can now vote, watch pornography, buy a variety of things like cigarettes and spray paint, and even die for his or ... Read More

Do you ever get out of the car someplace, and just smell the air? Like, when you go home for the weekend, and everything smells differentbetter. Or, you go to the beach, and you can smell the salt, and the seaweed, and the fuel from the boats in the harbor. ... Read More

An American Childhood. Annie Dillard. New York, New York Harper Row, 1988. 255 pp. There is little about the childhood of a girl from a somewhat wealthy home, growing up in Pittsburgh that would normally be thought of as interesting or original enough to be written about. In An American ... Read More

The problem of childhood obesity is a serious problem that has ramifications for health at international, national, local and most importantly individual levels. This essay will discuss the problems, such as increased affluence in first world countries, lack of education of correct eating habits and nutritional information, and reduced use ... Read More

There seems to be a fundamental epistemological difference between how we regard modern children and how we understand children in the past (Derevenski, JS, 2000) Discuss with reference to either one object type, or a group of objects that constitute the material culture of children. Conspicuous by their presence (or ... Read More

Childhood My friends and I were always having fun, hanging out, playing games, and breaking stuff, all kinds of stuff that you remember as a kid. We would always used to skateboard and do some filming with my video camera, which I'm so pleased of now. You think to your ... Read More

J.D. Salinger uses Holden Caulfields anti-heroic characteristics to develop the theme of innocence and childhood. Holden is afraid of growing up and would prefer to remain an innocent child. He seems unable to face the responsibilities that come as one gets older. His continued flunking at school shows this. They ... Read More

Many people throughout their whole lives go without some type of guidance. We go on living and making our own decisions, not really knowing if they are the correct choices. We continue roaming this earth not having the slightest idea of what our purpose actually is. When I accepted the ... Read More

The shinny old silver hand watch seemed to have taken forever getting to the numbers that I had anticipated for. The thought of finally graduating and whizzed off into the unknown and being with the most loved grandparents ever, was one of a child never leaving a candy shop. The ... Read More

Childhood obesity is a serious issue today in America, in which the rate of obesity is increasing more and more in children. Judith Warner writer of the column Domestic Disturbances for the New York Times, adds that about 17 percent of children and adolescents are obese... (Warner 401). Obesity is ... Read More

Obesity is a very deadly disease that has become rapidly growing throughout the years in the United States. It is estimated that around 100,000 Americans die each year from being too overweight. The sad part about this, is that obesity is very preventable, it is just that sugary foods and ... Read More

It all started in first grade, when it was a normal sunny morning, and I was going in Mrs. Williams class. It smelled like peaches and pineapples, and knew it was her perfume. It was as if I was able to taste the ripe juicy fruits. I then saw unusual ... Read More

Putting on performances for my mom on Mothers Day with my three siblings is my favorite childhood memory because we could not sing, act nor write good poems. Still, my mom loved every bit of our performances. Although, no matter how bad it turned out at the end , my ... Read More

During early childhood children especially during the age of five experience many physical changes. For instance, their brain is mately 90 percent of adult weight. However, wide individual differ. Two normal healthy children of the same age can have as much a 50 percent differences in brain volume. On the ... Read More

No one likes being judged and yet ninety-nine percent of people judge others. Moreover, no one likes to feel scrutinized or the victim of someone elses opinions on how to live your life. Most of our lives we try to fit in to the crowd but there are few who ... Read More

I am the youngest child in a family of three. Each child separated by about a three year difference. My sister and I are three years apart and my brother and I are six years apart. Being the youngest has its highs and its lows. Having two older siblings to ... Read More

Childhood obesity once not a topic of discussion now a global epidemic. Childhood obesity has become a global epidemic as increased trends obese and overweight children are apparent in developed and developing countries. Global data from 2005 estimated that over 20 million children under the age of five were found ... Read More

There was really only one childhood game that I really ever played because there were only about 2 or 3 kids that lived around me. The one game we played all the time was called manhunt. We all didnt really start playing this till we were in middle school. Once ... Read More

Do you still remember who accompanied you most in your childhood, anddid they make a great influence on you in your children stage?Ordinarily when parents are busy and need to go to work every day, theymay find it difficult to balance work and taking good care of theirchildren, thus may ... Read More

Over the past few weeks, I have read some articles about who should beblamed for obesity. In Weintraub, Daniel's articleThe Battle AgainstFast Food Begins in the Home'' he points out that parents are the onlyone need to take responsibility for child's obesity, because the parentslet their child eat fast food ... Read More

"About one in every three kids and teens are obese or overweight."(Heart.org, 2013) Over the past three years childhood obesity has tripled (Kristen Gillibrand 2011). Obesity is a serious problem and can cause children to have multiple medical issues such as high blood high pressure, type 2 diabetes, or elevated ... Read More

They crawl up your back when you least expect it. They make your rainbow into a stormy day make you live hell on Earth every day. Always there when least expected. Im talking about those difficult changes, that have caused stress, suffer, fright, and inconsolable. The problematic changes of the ... Read More

I sat in the backyard of my Matant Lolote's house watching as my cousinsran around playing with one another. I was never really interested inparties I've never celebrated a birthday party, house parties neverinterested me, and even just a large gathering of people rubbed me thewrong way, even if it ... Read More

Great memories last a lifetime. My favourite and vivid recollections are the summers of my early childhood. During the summer holidays I would spend time at my grandparents house, a house full of happiness and joy.Their house was a two terrace house, the garden lush with petunia, pansies and bright ... Read More

Little elephant, Little elephant, What a long nose you have.'' Sure it's long. So is my mommy's.''Little elephant, Little elephant, Tell me who you like.''I like mommy. I like her the most.'' (Michio, Mado)My memory is vague, but my mother used to read this poem to me when Iwas little. ... Read More

IntroductionIn the United States, the prevalence of childhood obesity continues to be a major focus in healthcare. Approximately 17 of US children are considered obese (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, Flegal, 2012). The complex condition known as obesity is primarily associated with the imbalance between poor eating habits and low levels of ... Read More

My teaching philosophy is To nurture and provide guidance towards a childs interest without judging or restricting their development. I have always wanted to be in a career where I am not forced to do things that are not of my interest instead I will love and enjoy executing it ... Read More

Childhood ObesityChildhood obesity is on the rise at an alarming rate and with obesity comes all sorts of other health factors that can affect children negativity heart disease, diabetes, and adult-hood obesity. Children are not born being obese they are groomed by lack of physical activity and putting the wrong ... Read More